Sculpture Quotes

• Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Block, Inspiration

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• Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

  William Shatner

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• Where the material ends, art begins.

  Etienne Hajdu

  Art, Ends, Materials

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• The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

  Michelangelo

  Christian, Art, Shadow Work

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• Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

  Henry Moore

  Helping Others, People, World

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  I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

  Michelangelo

  Life, Art, Creativity

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• A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between a painting and sculpture is the difference between a shadow and the thing which casts it.

  Benvenuto Cellini

  Men, Differences, Tree

  1547 Letter to Benedetto Varchi.

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• Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its essence into visible form. ... It must be the reflection of the artist who creates it and of the era in which he lives, not an echo or a memory of other days and other ways.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Spiritual, Art, Memories

  Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”

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• Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

  James Howell

  Art, Shapes, Rough

  James Howell (1713). “Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters, Domestick and Foreign. Divided into four books, Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions”, p.206

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• It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Meaningful, Wisdom, Giving

  Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Bonnie Rychlak, Isamu Noguchi Foundation (2004). “A sculptor's world”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Ideas, Space, Born

  Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Bonnie Rychlak, Isamu Noguchi Foundation (2004). “A sculptor's world”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?

  Constantin Brancusi

  Photograph, I Can

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.

  Benvenuto Cellini

  Heaven, Earth

  "Vita di Benvenuto Cellini" by G. P. Carpani, vol. 3, p. 199, 1821.

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• to give life to sculpture I found it must have a pulse, a breathing quality that could change in a flash, and it must never appear static, hard, or unrevealing. All these demands formed themslves in my thoughts, and became like an endless obsession.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Art, Breathing, Giving

  Malvina Hoffman (1965). “Yesterday is Tomorrow: A Personal History”, New York : Crown Publishers

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• Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

  Chuck Close

  Real, Space, Walks

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• The next step in sculpture is motion.

  Alexander Calder

  Next Steps, Next, Steps

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• A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Shapes, Obsessed

  "Celebrating Moore: Works from the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation".

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• In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Attitude, Wall

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• It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Feelings, Able, Privilege

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• A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.

  Henry Moore

  Pieces, Shapes, Size

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.195, Univ of California Press

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• The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Essence, Space, Perception

  Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Bonnie Rychlak, Isamu Noguchi Foundation (2004). “A sculptor's world”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Form, Teach, Anatomy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.252

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  Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

  Michelangelo

  Painting, Made

  Georgia Illetschko, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2004). “I, Michelangelo”, Prestel Pub

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• The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

  Hans Arp

  Animal, Essence, Light

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